June 2018

For World Environment Day, there was a UN Green Fair complete with a solar powered car and costumes made of plastic water bottles from which UN officials are swearing off. Among the tables on the plaza in front of the UN General Assembly building was one from Comics Uniting Nations, which in April launched the winner of the first ever UNICEF Climate Comic Contest for her character ‘TRé’ – a half tree-half human who uses special powers to save nature from a warming planet. Now they have a new comic called the “Poseidon Patrol,” which covers the growing problem of plastics in the ocean. Read More →